It's already understood that rural Americans have a harder time
accessing the internet - and have to deal with slower speeds
where it is available - than those living in cities. But, while
things are improving, urban-dwelling Americans aren't totally
online either: Nearly a quarter of the city-dwelling population
in the US isn't connected to broadband internet, according to a
recent IHS Markit and
Wireless Broadband Alliance study charted for us by Statista.

To be clear, the US is doing a better job at making the internet
available to its urban population than many other large nations.
But the disconnect that does exist is what happens when you mix
the relatively high costs of entry for
broadband in America with the number of lower-income people
living in cities in the first place. As the study notes, this
simply makes it difficult for those people to participate in
society at the same level.